The In Focus box in your textbook discussed H.M.'s ability to learn and retain a limited amount of knowledge of people who became famous after his surgery. This discovery showed that:
A) a limited amount of semantic knowledge can be supported by structures beyond the hippocampus.
B) memory consolidation, even when interrupted by brain trauma, can be restored with the right retrieval cues.
C) the memory trace, or engram, that Lashley had sought was actually located in the hippocampus.
D) the semantic memory system is less susceptible to retrograde amnesia than researchers once believed.

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H.M.'s ability to learn and retain a limited amount of knowledge of people who became famous after his surgery showed that a limited amount of semantic knowledge can be supported by structures beyond the hippocampus. This suggests that other brain regions may also be involved in supporting memory functions.

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